Media Release 3 May 2023 The Michael King Writers Centre announces recipients of International Exchange with Australia New Zealand writer Emma Hislop and Australian writer…
read moreMedia Release 28 March 2023 New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2023 International Residency with China The Michael King Writers Centre in association with…
read moreMedia Release 8 March 2023 New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2023 International Residency with Australia The Michael King Writers Centre in association with…
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Jacquie (Tainui and Ngāti Koata) is published in several anthologies, including the short story collection Nga hau e Wha, (Stories on the four winds) She…
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Originally from Kyiv, Nataliya is a Christchurch-based writer, playwright, street performer, researcher, theatre-maker and a Gothic nerd. She is the founder and director of NO…
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Rosetta, our sixth writer-in-residence for the year, spent her formative writing years developing strengths in poetry, receiving the Kathleen Grattan Poetry and the Metonymy Poetry…
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Gwynneth is a writer and editor from Ōtautahi Christchurch who recently became the librarian at Christchurch Women’s Prison. Writing essays since the mid-1990s, her practice…
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Sam is an award-winning, prolific playwright and journalist, noted for his queer and political work. He has won the Bruce Mason Playwrighting Award, New Zealand’s…
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Josie lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland with her husband and two daughters. Her debut novel, Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts will be published by…
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Our second writer-in-residence Duncan is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, performer and short story writer. He has written film scripts, plays, short stories and novels, touring…
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